Butler's Assignee v. Butler's Administratrix

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

Anderson Butler died in January, 1925, the owner of about 30 acres of land in Bourbon county, which he had mortgaged to the Federal Land Bank for $4,000 for borrowed money. The debt bore interest at 5% per cent.; the interest was payable semiannually, $130 on March 1 and September 1 of each year. He left surviving him a son, Charles Butler, and the widow, Elizabeth Butler, who qualified as his personal representatives and filed a suit to settle his estate. In this suit Emma Butler, the wife of Charles Butler, filed her petition, in which she…